Hi,

  I have an application developed on English environment and I am sure the  
author had never had such an anticipation using it in east Asia.
  But now we do use this application on Japanese version windows 2000.
  On one of its tools, there is a input box where you can input something  
to send to another process.
  I tried inputing some Japanese words, but when I completed inputing and  
push the [Enter] key, the inputed words became some garbage characters.So,  
I know that this tool may be a ANSI application and the font for that  
input box may be an English font such as Arial.
  Then, I sent out those Japanese words. When I went to see sending log  
file, those Japanese words were displayed correctly. (It proved my  
conclusion that the application is running in an ANSI environment and both  
its input and output are encoded as ANSI encoded string.)
  But during this process, I found an annoying problem.
  For example, I input a Japanese words '好', whose shift-jis encoded  
binary is 0x8D44, Unicode encoded binary is 0x597D. After I completed  
inputing, what is displayed in that input box is a pane and a character  
'D', two characters in font 'Courier'. May be the font for that input box  
is 'Courier'.
  My question:
    1.Is font 'Courier' a Unicode font? Can it be used to display ANSI  
encoded characters?
     2.Why does windows use ANSI encoded binary 0x8D44,not Unicode encoded  
binary 0x597D to resolve what will display in      that input box? As far as  
I know, windows 2000 uses Unicode as its internal encoding.